Leg or standard for furniture, &amp;c.



No. 705,653. Patented July 29, @902.

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LEG OR STANDARD FDR FURNITURE. 81.0.

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WILBURGLDAVIS, or NEWTON CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR '10 MELLEN BRAY, or NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LEG OR S'TAINDARDIFOR FURNITURE, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,653, dated July 29, 1902.

Application filed October 7,1901. sea; No..77,753. (t model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WiLBUR G. DAVIS, of Newton Center, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Legs or Standards for Furniture, 850., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to legs or standards for supporting tables and other like bodies, and has for its object to provide at a minimum cost a leg or standard of tapering form and polygonal cross-section, this form of leg being in great demand on account of, its desirable and artistic appearance. When a tapering leg of hexagonal or other polygonal cross-section is made solid, as heretofore, the expense of such leg is very considerable owing to the amount of material involved and the necessary waste. My invention is intended to prevent or minimize waste of material and produce a tapering hexagonal leg of the desired size and external appearance and also possessing all the necessary strength at a minimum expense.

To this end the invention consists in the im proved leg or standard which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a leg or standard embodying my invention. Fig, 2 represents a partial longitudinal section on the plane of line 2 2, Fig. 1. verse section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a view similarto Fig. 2, showing a portion of a table top or body secured to my improved leg or standard. Figs. 5 and 6 represent sectional views of a composite leg or standard embodying my invention. Fig. '7 represents a transverse section of one of the strips from which the leg is made.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Carrying out my invention I construct a tapering leg or standard a, which is of hexagonal or other polygonal form in cross-sec- -tion, in the following manner: I take a plurality of strips 4: 4 of wood or other suitable material, each strip having two opposite fiat sides 5 5 and two edges 6 6, which are beveled inwardly from the outer to the inner side of Fig. 3 represents a trans-.

the strip. The strip is tapered longitudinally, so that it is narrowerat one end than at the other. The angle of the edges 6 relativly to the sides 5 is such that when the strips are assembled .in the predetermined order and the edges of these strips bear against each other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, a hollow tapering structure or shell. is formed which is hexagonalin cross-section. Prior to the assemblage of the strips in the order described their edges 6 are treated with-glue, so that when the glue has set or hardened the strips are firmly united by glue joints. To facilitate the assemblage of the strips, I provide one of the edges 6 with a longitudinal head 8 and the other edge witha longitudinal groove 9. The beads i and grooves of the several strips are relatively arranged so that when the strips reach their proper relative positions the heads 8 will enter the grooves 9, so that the edges ofthe strips willbe accurately positioned relatively to each other, there being no liability of edgewise displacement of any strip while the glue is setting or hardening.

It will be seen that a leg formed as a hollow shell, as above described, can be much more cheaply manufactured. than a solid leg of the same external form and is sufficiently strong and durable for all practical purposes.

The leg is provided at its larger end with an attachment-screw I), which is located at the longitudinal center of the leg and somewhat below its larger end, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, so that when the screw is engaged with an internally-threaded socket c, affixed to the under side of a table 61, the upper end of the shell or structure will come to a hearing on the under side of the table before the upper end of the screw 1) reaches the bottom of the socket. A firm bearing of the leg against the table is thus insured. The screw 1) is separated from the surrounding walls of the shell or structure by a space of sufiicient size to receive the downwardly-projecting socket c. The attaching-screw b is affixed to the shell or structure a, by means of a spider 6, having at its margin an upwardly-projecting polygonal flange e, which is tapered to fit the interior of the shell a, near the upper end of the latter, so that when the spider is dropped into the shell its flange 6 will he seated upon the interior of-the shell. The flange e is secured to the shell by means of rivets or other fastening devices 6 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The spider e is provided at its center with a downwardly-projecting tu bular boss 6 in which the lower portion of the screw bis inserted, the screw being affixed to the boss (2 by means of a transverse rivet (2 It will be seen that the location of the upper end of the screw below the upper end of the shell protects the screw from in jury when the leg or standard is removed from the body (1 and prevents the swelling or shrinkage of the wood from interfering with the bearing of the upper end of the shell against the bottom of the body (1. As will be readily understood, the spider e strengthens the hollow leg or standard, holding each strip by the fastening device e and rigidly holding all of the strips in their properrelative positions. Furthermore, as the spider is cup-shaped and formed with a closed or imperforate bottom (except the opening in the boss, which is closed by the screw) it serves to close the hollow leg and prevent access thereto of either moisture, dust, refuse, mice, or insects, such as water-bugs.

In-Figs. 5 and 6 I show the above-described hollow shell or structure a, forming a part of a composite leg, the other parts of which are the terminals 9 and h. In Fig. 5 the attaching-screw b is elongated sufficiently to extend nearly through the terminal g, the latter having a cavity in its upper portion receiving the socket c. In Fig. 6 the terminal g is provided with a socket to receive the attaching-screw b, the terminal g being also provided with an independent attaching-screw 19 The lower end of thc'shell a is or may be externally turned to form a cylindrical shank a, which enters a cylindrical socket in the terminal h.

I claim- 1. A leg or standard comprising a plurality of tapering strips united at their edges to form a hollow tapering structure or shell which is polygonal in cross-section, and a spider having a flange to which said strips are attached, and an attaching-screw carried by said spider within said structure at the center of its larger end, said screw being below the said larger end and separated from the surrounding walls of the structure by a space formed to receive a projecting socket on a body to be supported.

2. A leg or standard comprising a plurality of tapering strips united at {their edges to form a hollow tapering structure or shell which is polygonal in cross-section, a spider seated on the interior of said structure below its larger end and having a flange to which said strips are attached, and an attachingscrew affixed to the center of the spider and projecting outwardly therefrom.

3. A leg or standard comprising a plurality of tapering strips united at their edges to form a hollow tapering structure or shell which is polygonal in cross-section, a spider seated on the interior of said structure below its larger end and having a flange to which said strips are attached, and an attachingscrew affixed to the center of the spider and projecting outwardly therefrom, said screw being separated from the surrounding walls of the structure by a space formed to receive aprojecting socket on a body to be supported.

4. A leg or standard comprising a plurality of tapering strips united at their edges to form a hollow tapering structure or shell which is polygonal in cross-section, a spider having on its margin a tapering polygonal flange seated on the interior of said structure below its larger end, said flange projecting outwardly from the spider, and at its center an inwardly-projecting tubular boss and an attaching-screw inserted in and secured'to 

